WVSU Lesson Plan Format

Kaycee Pauley
Grade/Subject: 9th / World History
Lesson Topic: Lesson 9: Age of Exploration: Discovery of the New World
NCSS Theme: 3: Production, Consumption, and Distribution
5: Global Connections
6: People, Places, and Environments

Instructional Objectives / Student Outcomes:

Students will understand the meaning of Discovery
Students will identify the reasoning behind Europes need for resources

WVCSO: SS.9.H.CL5.4: Explain how European needs/wants for foreign products contributed
to the Age of Exploration.
National Standards:
Era 6: The Emergence of the First Global Age, 1450-1770
Standard 1: How the transoceanic interlinking of all major regions of the world from 1450-1600
led to global transformations
Management Framework:
Overall Time: 45 minutes
Time Frame: 3 minutes: give back notes / introduction to lesson
15-25 minutes: Lecture from Prezi Age of Exploration / students take Cornell style
notes

10-15 minutes: classroom discussion on the true story of the discovery of the
Americas via National Geographic clip
Strategies:
Teacher centered
Cornell Note Taking
Differentiated Instruction:
Write lesson topic and objective on the board Age of Exploration the Discovery of the New
World
Write key words on board
Procedure:
Introduction:
I begin by asking students who discovered the New World and ask them if they should trust
everything the read in their textbooks. Students are to get out their Cornell Note Taking Note
Books and take notes on the Prezi lecture.
Body/Transition:
Students are to take notes in their notebooks while I deliver the lecture via Prezi.
Closure:
Class discussion on the true story of how the New World was conquered and not so much
discovered via National Geographic clip
Strategies:
Direct Instruction
Guided Instruction
Differentiated Instruction:

Write lesson topic and objective on the board Age of Exploration: the discovery of the

New World
Key words are written on the board

Assessment:
Diagnostic / Informal: Ask students questions about who discovered America and if they were
sure
Formative / Informal: Observe students taking notes while lecturing
Summative / Formal: Students notes are exit tickets
Materials:
Computer

National Geographic clip

Prezi

pencils

Cornell Note Taking Notebook

Extended Activities:
If lesson finished early, classroom discussion on who discovered America and watch Nat Geo
clip
If students finish early, classroom discussion and Nat Geo clip
If Technology fails: students will listen to teacher lecture from print out notes
Post Teaching: